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Saturday, April 21, 2007
‘A man reaps what he sows’
the lord ‘s been reiterating the importance of my need to understand completely what this means. Its really not as simple as you think, do not take it at face level! Untill you live and experience this word for yourself, all its ever gonna be is another catchy statement.untill you do, it becomes simpler because you learn to recognise cause and effect, action and reaction,the theory that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction is more than just another boring sentence in a -textbook that you are forced to be well aquainted with.
galatians 6:8 says, ‘the one who sows to please his sinful nature,from that nature will reap destruction,the one who sows to please the spirit,from the spirit will reap eternal life’
that’s right. every choice you make gives rise to a possibility of outcomes, and they could be good or bad, it does not pivot on the grounds on which your choice was based, it pivots on the CHOICE itself.why,you ask.compromise. which leads to justification later,which blunty put- is what we call an excuse. we find ways and means to disprove the severity of the consequence because it supposedly started out with ‘all the right intentions,not out of deliberate malice or bad will’.
after which does it affect the outcome? not the slightest,no. it was through justification and compromise that sin was conceived in Adam and Eve. And right till this very day although we do not live the consequences of sin because ‘he who knew no sin became sin on our behalf’ … you know how the story goes- sin is still very much in existence. we could never live completely free of sin, but we could strive to live against sin. every choice you make,every decision carries with it enough power to show how much of christ you have in you, and equally so it has the ability to put the name of god to shame.looking at it this way,its not really all too difficult to choose aint it? haha everything else is pretty much walking with god,take time to reflect on how much of that it’s gonna take for you to make a certain choice in your life that appears wayyyy to difficult,and the means by which such a choice would be made easier.
ive struggled with making a choice,all of us have im sure.this choice involves(yes, you guessed it) sin. where god is concerned its always a matter of black,or white. walk the world’s way,sin. walk the lord’s way, no sin. and then satan throws in the grey and everyone gets so bloody pissed. haha cus that’s precisely what he wants! to make your choice a lil more difficult, to convince you that maybe you could have the best of two, why not? the bible says this ‘let your yes be a yes and your no be no’ and this ‘if you are not with me you are against me’ he didn’t say ‘if you are with me physically and not with me spiritually you are still with me,everything’s still the same’ and today during cell anchoring on what bjorn shared about how the lord has also pointed out to him the meaning of reaping what you sow,the lord sorta revelead to me that it all comes back to the seed that was sown,not so much of the fruits that come thereafter. why is always easy for us to sin, feel all guilty, seek forgivness and then turn full circle the very next momment?
god points out the reason in proverbs4:23 ‘above all else guard your heart,for from it flows the wellspring of life’
lord my prayer today is simple. search our hearts. You know our ways, you know how we think and why we think the way we do. You know what drives our every action. remove the seeds of strongholds in our lives so that you could take root and establish in us, that our every choice, thought they could never be perfect, will at the very least reflect your glory because we know that you were crucified so we could be free from the chains of sin and we can live in victory. Amen.
STORMcity!;
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